8.16.2005

Robot IQ test

From the article: "How do you tell just how smart your robot is? Give it a universal IQ test, researchers suggest.

Traditional measures of human intelligence would often be inappropriate for systems that have senses, environments, and cognitive capacities very different from our own.

So Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter at the Swiss Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Manno-Lugano, have drafted an idea for an alternative test which will allow the intelligence of vision systems, robots, natural-language processing programs or trading agents to be compared and contrasted despite their broad and disparate functions."

I hate the human IQ scale: 100 what? It is too nebulous and counts nothing real. I would like a more quantitative measure of IQ in ANY system. By counting how many:1. Ask a question2. Action3. Do it againIn other words, a toaster has an IQ of one. Because it asks one question (is it done yet), one action (pop the toast) and can do it again (another bread to toast). IBM’s Big Blue would have a huge IQ under this system, in the thousands?Of course, learning would involve the inclusion of a new 1, 2 and 3.

Good point “shane”. I was just trying to stimulate interest in creating a new physical measure of intelligence. Something likes moles of a solution. How about Smart units? They could represent the number effective rules in a system. Like an expert system with 100 rules, would have 100 Smarts? Then you could have Smartarity: number of Smarts in one system?